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I have heard these guys run a great service, however that seems like an amazing statement. 2% seems like a massive amount - especially considering the international reach that I suspect would be needed. Anyone have any stats to back that up or how they came to that number?

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I spoke with David a few months ago. He said that the percentage was based on the number of active websites, which according to http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/ is 139,902,673.

I don't know for sure if Weebly uses this number to calculate the percentage. But probably not, since it only indicates ~2.8 million Weebly websites, and they claim 11 million (7.8% of that active domain number).

Isn't this the number of domain names that point to a nameserver rather than the number of websites?

By that metric MySpace hosts about 100% of all websites, and YouTube hosts 100 000% of all TV channels.

I'd be interested too, if we assume 1 user = 1 website, that means they have 20% of the websites that webs inc has (http://www.webs.com/company.htm) which translates as webs inc running 10% (!!) of the internet's websites, which is an incredible figure too.

One user can have up to 10 free websites in their account (and unlimited "designer platform" websites too) so more than 1 website is the average per user.

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